Motivation Daily by Motiversity - THE ART OF LOSING - The Most Powerful Motivational Speeches for Success, Athletes & Working Out

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

THE ART OF LOSING! The best in the world know they will lose again and again, but they have learned how to deal with it. Best Motivational Speeches from Motiversity, featuring speeches from Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady, and more.Special thanks to our partners:Chris Williamson: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillxPatrick Bet-David of Valuetainment: https://www.youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENTLewis Howes: https://www.youtube.com/@lewishowesSpeakersSerena Williamshttps://www.instagram.com/serenawilliams/Roger Federerhttps://www.instagram.com/rogerfederer/Chris Williamsonhttps://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillxLeBron Jameshttps://www.instagram.com/kingjames/Kobe Bryanthttps://www.instagram.com/kobebryantWalter BondYouTube: http://bit.ly/WalterBondMotivationEric Thomashttps://www.youtube.com/user/etthehiphoppreacherPatrick Bet-Davidhttps://www.youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENTTom Bradyhttps://www.instagram.com/tombrady/Tim Groverhttps://www.instagram.com/timgrover/Morgan Houselhttps://x.com/morganhousel?lang=enChris Bumsteadhttps://www.instagram.com/cbum/?Frank Brunohttps://www.instagram.com/frankbrunoboxer/Mike Tysonhttps://www.instagram.com/miketyson/Greg Plitthttps://www.instagram.com/gregplitt/?hl=enAlex Hormozihttps://www.instagram.com/hormozi/?hl=enMichael Jordanhttps://www.instagram.com/jumpman23/Ryan Holidayhttps://ryanholiday.net/Stephen Curryhttps://www.instagram.com/stephencurry30/?hl=enCoach PainYouTube: http://bit.ly/2LmRyeaInstagram: http://bit.ly/2XLcLW5Facebook: http://bit.ly/32tZdNiMarcus “Elevation” TaylorYouTube: https://bit.ly/MarcusATaylorChannelConor McGregrorMichael JordanTiger WoodsKobe BryantMuhammad AliVenus WilliamsFloyd MayweatherBabe RuthMusic: Secession Studioshttps://www.youtube.com/user/thesecessionRok Nardin - HeroesRok Nardin - Persistencehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs4fABLb5luHCojPUgg8AiAAudiojungle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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New episodes are being released every week. The link is in the description. I hate losing. I mean, that's no secret. But you got to lose. I feel like every time I lose, I get better. And I think it's important for me to have losses. The best in the world are not the best because they win every point.

It's because they know they lose again and again and have learned how to deal with it. to be too late for New Zealand. Australia knows their gold medal. And Woodman is inconsolable on the pitch. And the New York Giants one second away from pulling off this upset. The Giants have won the Super Bowl. The Boston Celtics are NBA champions once again. What I've learned is to always keep going.

You know, there's been times particularly early in my career where you just feels like this is the end. But what I've come to find out is that no matter what happens, the storm eventually ends. And when the storm does end, you want to make sure that you're ready. We had a chance to beat them. We just didn't respond. I was devastated. I was absolutely devastated.

I cried on the bus. My father came home and said, look, it's just one game, bounce back, come back next year. Jordan has been back to the Jordan Pistons getting back to the mock room their season has concluded while the Chicago Bulls advance to the NBA championship round

Successful people see opportunity in every failure normal people see failure in every opportunity both are right only one gets rich You can't control the outcome all the time Like the ball's going to bounce the other team's way Like sometimes it should go the other people's way It shouldn't always go your way.

You get motivated by the losses. You stay motivated through the winning. What you can control is your process. You can control the work ethic, the consistent discipline, your attitude, your culture, how much you care. All those things are in you. They just need to be drawn out of you. If you don't fail, you're not even trying. The truth is, whatever game you play in life, sometimes you're going to lose a point, a match, a season.

A job, it's a roller coaster with many ups and downs, and it's natural when you're down to doubt yourself and to feel sorry for yourself. And by the way, your opponents have self-doubt too. Don't ever forget that. You want to become a master at overcoming hard moments. That is, to me, the sign of a champion. Chris Bumstead, he is the Mr. O'Leep Olympia Classic physique champion four years in a row. This guy is, he looks like he's carved out of stone. He's the modern day Arnold Schwarzenegger. People are making a lot of comparisons. He doesn't have the tyrannical self-belief

that someone like a Michael Jordan does. So, you know, Michael Jordan is he wouldn't even dream of losing if anybody slighted him. There was this sort of rage fire that was lit underneath him. But Chris's approach is very different. He's like, I think about losing all the time. It's like I'm scared of losing. I'm scared of losing to my opponent.

But his idea was that because he has accepted the fact that he may lose, he believes it's given him the potential to be able to put it all on the line in a way that someone who hadn't considered the possibility of losing wouldn't be able to do it. You know, the way I view it is sometimes you have to lose the win. And last year we lost. And I think it's set us up and put us in better position to win this year. the number one goal from everybody here will be the win.

And when that is the number one goal of everyone that walks into this building, everything else you figure it out. Sometimes you succeed. Sometimes you fail. And that's just the nature of it. Get rid of fear. It can be an engine to motivate you and make you work hard. But at a certain point, though, fear can hold you back.

It's easy to get complacent and to start thinking, man, I've done all right, I'm comfortable. Let me not risk trying to do something I'm not sure I can do. Sometimes you fail, but sometimes you succeed. And you can learn from both, right? As long as you're willing to be self-critical and kind of evaluate when things don't work, why they didn't work, that you don't need to be afraid. And that's going to hold you back. from the outsider's perspective,

everything looks like it's easier and better run that it actually is. But if you have the insider perspective of how the sausage is made, you realize like how inefficient virtually everything is. And so that's, I think that's a big part of life is just like realizing that success is harder than it looks. We talked about this earlier with Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, all these people.

Like, if you actually dig into what their life is, it's infinitely harder than it looks. I think in most endeavor, in life. People perfectly understand the relationship between price and quality. You want a nicer car, it costs more. Bigger house, it costs more. But that, like, understanding goes out the window when you're talking about career success or career fulfillment or personal health, things like that. The relationship just kind of breaks down in their own mind. But it doesn't go away. Like, the higher the success, the higher the cost. I love reading biographies of entrepreneurs, of generals, whoever it might be.

With very few exceptions, do I finish the biography and think to myself, I want that person's life. What I think is, I'm glad they existed. I'm so glad the world had that person that we can all benefit from. But the crazy success comes with a cost that very few people, including most of the time myself, are not willing to pay.

A lot of things happen in our life. You know, we all face our challenges and adversities, and we all go through things, and I think life is about dealing with a lot of things that you didn't want to have happen in your life, whether it's your business or whether it's sports or whether it's personal or, you know, children. and like I said, we all have our unique challenges, but do the best you can do.

Show up every day and make the commitment to yourself and the people that count on you, the people that you support you. And through a lot of failures, you're going to learn a lot and you're going to hopefully be humbled because sometimes, you know, you give your best and it doesn't work. And I learn that in sports and you learn it in life in different ways too. Sometimes you try your best, you work hard, but it just doesn't in the end go the way you want. So what are you going to do?

quit? You're going to just blame everyone else? You're going to go in there and blame the guy next door and blame that person and blame the dog and go out there and sleep in the 10 o'clock? Are you going to get out of bed, wake up and go do something about it? What one small step could I implement in my life? What one small change that would increase the probability that the next time I'm in this situation that I would come out as a winner rather than a loser? It's like, okay, you can feel good and not learn, or you can learn. Or you can learn and feel terrible. That's part of the art of learning to lose gracefully. Take a pause before you make a decision and say what if. Take a negative and turn it into a positive.

Don't be afraid to fail. For many times I was laughed I had not believed him, but it was still a kid with a dream and a belief in himself. I feel I still have room to improve. I still set goals for myself to strive for. I'm never complacent with what I've achieved. We have money, we have everything, we have fame. But the most important thing is the family. Keep your family, healthy, goods, and take care of your family. Because this is the most important thing in the world. Failing to prepare was preparing to fail.

The night before a game, I eat the same food, I went to bed at the same time, I got up, I ate the same breakfast. Some people call it superstition, but it's a routine. I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hoe. because you might be actually not feeling great physically or mentally you're drained, but the confidence somehow gets you through. And when you don't have confidence, that's then when you have to sort of trust all the hard work you've done,

and you have to keep on working hard, so success comes back. I make mistakes, but I strive every day to be a perfectionist. Set yourself a definite goal, and work hard toward that goal, and don't let anything or anyone stop you in the process, no matter what it is. I didn't really care about the standings or, you know, the perception of my style or whatever, as long as I could keep learning these new tricks. And so as I was successful in competition and winning a lot of the events, my job was just to keep getting better. I know you got him.

I know you got him picked, but the man's in trouble. I'm going to show you how great I am. People perform better when there's no safety net. people perform better in sports and everything else if you don't have a plan B we were down 1-0 and if you walked into our locker room at halftime you thought we were up 3-0

nothing external can defeat the internal the only thing that can take someone down or break you down is internal nothing external is strong enough you just never give up because you never know what can happen you never know who you can inspire and who you can influence. I'm not going to go out and say I'm the greatest this or that.

I just, I was a kid with a dream, that's it. You have to fail in order to climb that ladder. You are fighting the greatest fight of all times. And I fought because I knew it was not doing to be a losing fight. It couldn't be a losing fight. You know, as long as you believe in what you're doing and you're doing things you love to do, then you can go out there and be the best at it. And that should give you a lot of enjoyment, fulfillment in your, you know,

fulfillment in your life. Always keep an open mind that there's something out there for each and every one of you. And it's up to you to go out there and find your niche. You learn just to stick with it. I mean, there's lots of days where you don't really feel like doing it or you don't feel like grinding it out and you got to do it. You know, those highs and lows of being an athlete. And if you want to feel those highs, you've got to go through those lows every now and now.

This time when you run and you just want to stay. Toppians want to give up, like, to hell with this, I just want to go home. The day when you get up and you know what, you have a training today, you know it's going to be intense, saying like, oh, God, I don't want to go today, but you got to go. When you play sports and you're committed to something, the commitment, the responsibility of showing up the practice on time, to be in there for your teammates, to listening to your coaches. It's a responsibility that you have when you're playing with a group that you have to hold your end of the bargain. When you have to make a put, you make a put.

You have to hit the shot, you hit the shot. You just sort of like drop into another zone and you block out of everything. Sometimes the wheel can outdo the skill. And sometimes a fellow's wheel is stronger than the man who's actually better physically and the determination and weakens the other man just to see him so determined.

I still feel I have a lot to prove not just as a player, but as a person, as a father. When I get to a point where I feel I can improve as a player, I walk away from the game. I am the greatest. Hard fucking walk. You put it in. You believe in it. You will succeed.

Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player. Everything. Everything. And so when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft. Some of the best athletes, the greatest athletes in the world, do things when they're, You just have to stay calm because it's not finished to the last point no matter how close you get. I've been working so hard on my life to be here and I was determined to get this. You gotta start from way down the bottom.

You gotta let it grow up with you. And if you're successful and you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top. Just like these boys, have come to the top now. Mentally, we have a vision, we have a finish that we have to attain, you know, and sometimes you have to do it when you old and you're tired, you know, and I think it's the test of your will to succeed. Tired don't mean nothing. Tired is only in the mind.

You tell yourself, you're going to be tired, you're going to be tired. I don't get tired. I'm going to beat you. I'm going to let you know I beat you. I'm going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice. My father who raised me, his thing was, son, you may not be the best, but leave everything on the floor. You put 120 percent. I'm just asking you to do 120.

Like every day when you come in 120. You got a woman so bad. You got to give all of yourself to get it. You got to be obsessive. Because I didn't grow up with things being handed to. me had to work hard, I had to dedicate myself, and I had to be determined, and I was. The bottom line is that if you're talking about beating everybody else on the planet to a thing, what you're actually talking about is what are you prepared to sacrifice psychologically,

physically, existentially, relationally, socially, in terms of your self-esteem, you're confident, everything, right? All of that. That pain you feel, that's a pain that success. you must be willing to shoulder to that pain to get success. The success is something that's a very lonely path in this world. Because few are willing to make that down payment of pain, that futurement of success, that better life.

Very few are. So if you want to be the top, you've got to move different. There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with me out there. There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with Michael Jordan. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant. there weren't a lot of smiley faces with Tiger Woods. Even when I watch sports today and see these guys on the range, like they're all buddies.

And I'm like, that's not the killer instinct. That's just not. I don't think Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson were trying to be friends with anybody. I think they were going out there on a mission. And if there was someone in their way, they had to crush them. There's never any doubts in my mind because I'm the best in the world. Even though a lot of you don't like to hear it, I just, it's fast. I'm the best.

You know what I mean? I sometimes I don't want to believe in myself, but it's the truth. I'm the best. You can love me. You can hate me. I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to win. At the end of the day, even Alexander,

one of his famous quotes is, I have met the enemy, it is I, right? And although that is one element of an enemy, that's great. We need that. Michael had it, Brady had it, Kobe had it, but there's a crazy psychologically,

you can call it, you know, psycho-competitor that they're constantly in the search of recruiting their next enemy. It's like, you know, life is boring if I don't have my next target. You know, I'm almost, you know, bad for myself if I don't have the next target, the next enemy. And if I choose it the right way, then I'm able to bring God a side of me I've never seen before. Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them. You don't beat them.

You cast a shadow so big, no one can see them to begin with. And that's what, it comes down to like, what are you willing to sacrifice at the end of the day? You know, people don't understand the level of sacrifice is going to take. And there's been moments where I realize that I compete because I want to win. I love winning. I love being the best in the world. I've sat many times trying to find the balance of what I want within all this. If I was losing, I wouldn't be competing.

I'm here to win. It is hard. It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off-season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It's hard when you're on your way to practice, way down with all your gear, and it's 90 degrees out, and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach. No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits, and bruises along the way.

And my advice is to prepare yourself because success and achievement come from overcoming adversity. When the rest of the world says no to you, you say yes to yourself. You say yes, I believe. You say yes, I can do it. You say yes, nothing can stop me.

If you want to be a great player, if you play every single day, two, three hours, every single day, or a course of a year, how much better you get? Most kids will play maybe, you know, an hour and a half, two days a week. It's not going to get it done. You have to be obsessive. You have to be obsessive. You have to be addicted. You have to be disciplined.

The key there is you. Everyone else is looking for other individuals to do stuff for you. looking for help from everybody else. Okay, it starts and it ends with you. Your identity starts and it ends with you. Every day is an opportunity based on your choices on how you look at things. The choices you make every day. That is what you are in the mirror today.

From the captain to the cashier, there is more in you. Stay at home father, stay at home mother. doctor hygienist author I don't know who you are where you're from but there's more in you that becomes a part of who you are that changes how you think that changes how you move that changes how you behave if you could become an executor if you can execute I'm talking I learn it I'm talking about put it deep within not you hear it you have to realize that there's always work to do and you want to be the hardest working person and whatever you do and you'll put yourself in position to be successful.

Muhammad Ali said, suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion because he knew that the training wasn't killing him. The training was making him. It was forging him in fire. I got to trust that nothing out there can stop who I am inside. You've got to stand on your faith. You got to stand on your strength. You got to stand on your strength. You got to stand on who you are. I will rise again and I will push. I will be the victorious one. I will conquer.

Listen to me, if you work forward, if you were willing to put in that sweat, that blood and those tears, baby, I'm telling you, you can have what you won't, be what you won't, do what you won't. Are you hearing me, don't give up, don't give in. You hang in there. You hang in there because if you quit right now,

You ain't gonna never see it. You ain't gonna never get it. But if you hold on, baby, ha ha ha. But if you hold on, if you hold on, everything you dreamed of, everything you envisioned, everything you work for, it's coming. If you work hard, you can't have it. It ain't nothing you can't have.

You deserve it. It ain't nothing you can't have if you're willing to work for it. Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, how much more can you take? What tried to kill you only made you strong. So what are you waiting for? You have greatness within you.